3/28/2007
Web Trek - Exploring 4 Known Dimensions
Registration http://webtrek4dimensions.eventbrite.com



Web Trek: Exploring Space & Time
How to Integrate Where 2.0 Technology in Web Space
by Kent Brewster, Technology Evangelist at Yahoo! Developer Network
How to Integrate Time in Web Space
by Ethan Stock, CEO & Co-Founder at Zvents
& Mike Geary, Senior Engineer at Zvents

Date: Mar 28, 07 Wed
Time: 6:30-9:00 pm
6:45pm Live Performance by South Bay School of Music & Art
National Anthems
Browser Wars Theme Song: "We're All In This Together" & Other songs
6:30pm-7:30pm Networking/Food & Drink
7:30pm-9:30pm Presentations
Location: Building Two "The Matrix"
Hurricane Electric, 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont, CA 94539
RSVP: http://webtrek4dimensions.eventbrite.com
Cost: FREE

With increasing business demand on integrating mapping features with products and services, web builders are asked to explore Where 2.0 technology in mash-ups or applications via data interchange file formats or web services APIs. According to O'Reilly report, web builders can do more with Yahoo APIs than Google's. You can embed Flash and AJAX map components in web page, similar to Google Map Javascript API. It is more powerful and elegant with Yahoo Geocoding API. Yahoo! MapMaker is Excel component allow you to build maps straight from Excel with no programming needed. You can input address/city/state, latitude/longitude pairs, or a column containing nothing but ZIP codes, assign titles and descriptions to each map point. Our speaker will discuss Simple API, Embedded Maps APIs (AJAX & Flash) and the Building Blocks APIs with hand-on demonstrations. Maps APIs make your website or application come alive with rich content and dynamic user interaction of Yahoo! Maps. Yahoo! Maps Web Services make it easy to build Yahoo! Maps based applications such as integrating store locator or viewing highway traffic pattern. Yahoo! Maps' build-in Geocorder enables you to specify an address or latitude/longitude coordinates without any need to call an additional service or write special code.

http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

Zvents allows web builders to quickly integrate a free interactive event calendar for any website via Zvents Network Calendar. Zvents aggregates event information from the open web and user-contributed content. Your submitted events are automatically distributed to local Zvents media partners where they will appear on event calendar and possibly in print editions. Zvents Developer API provides programmatic access to objects stored in Zvents. These objects include events, venues, groups, users and tags. All API calls support a number of output formats including XML, RSS and JSON. Zvents Media Platform provides a complete events solution for local and regional web publishers, providing next-generation event search and advertising solutions.

Our expert speakers from Yahoo Developer Center and Zvent will show you practical skills to add more value-added services to your websites with easy and simple integration.

Web Trek - Exploring Space

How to Integrate Where 2.0 Technology in Web Space

Kent Brewster
Technology Evangelist at Yahoo! Developer Network
Kent Brewster is a technology evangelist for the Yahoo! Developer Network. In his spare time he hacks JavaScript and PHP, and maintains Brewster's Field Guide to Web 2.666, at http://kentbrewster.com.

Photo by: Laughing Squid

Web Trek: Exploring Time

How to Integrate Time in Web Space
Ethan Stock
CEO & Co-founder at Zvents
Ethan co-founded Zvents in early 2005, and he brings a diverse background in scholarship and technology to the pursuit of entrepreneurial ventures. In 1996, while in graduate school at UC Berkeley on an NSF fellowship, he founded Bamboo Systems, an early entrant in the CRM market. In 2000, he served as COO of eBusinessMedia, the B2B Internet arm of UK publisher United News & Media, where he oversaw the launch of multiple industry-focused internet content and commerce properties, including the first deployment of CommerceOne in Europe. A programmer since he was ten years old, Ethan worked as a systems engineer at EDS and was a principal consultant at strategy firm The McKenna Group in the late 1990s. He holds a B.A. in History from The Ohio State University.

Mike Geary
Senior Engineer at Zvents.com
Michael Geary has been online since 1969, when he punched BASIC programs on paper tape and "high speed" was 300 baud. He wrote the first email client for PCs and was one of the developers of Visual Basic and Adobe Acrobat. Today, Mike works on the Zvents Network Calendar and interactive features for Zvents partner websites."